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...entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed to win in four starts as a two-year-old and placed second in his only race this spring. Odds on Broker's Tip were 9 to i. The favorite was William R. Coe's Ladysman. son of Pompey who was beaten by Col. Bradley's Bubbling Over in the Derby of 1926. Best of the western entrants, most people thought, were Charley O, who won the Florida Derby, and a "10^ store horse" named Head Play. An oldtime jockey, Willie Crump, bought Head Play...
...seemed to make very little difference. Fisher got his horse away fast, crossed over to the inside and took the lead going round the first turn. At the half mile, he broke away from the field to a lead of more than a length. Ladysman tried to keep up but could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader. It was then that the crowd of 40,000 saw the shaping of the most exciting Kentucky Derby finish that anyone could remember. A dark brown horse with a jockey in white silk...
...aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official" appeared beside the results: 1st Broker's Tip. 2nd Head Play. 3rd Charley O. Ladysman was fourth, a length ahead of his stablemate Pomponius. Broker's Tip's time-2:06 4/5-was fair for a muddy track. In the last 20 years the Kentucky Derby, started in 1875 when Aristides won a purse of $2,850, has attracted better crowds than any other...
...William Robertson Coe's colt Ladysman, champion two-year-old of 1932 and favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby: his first race this year, against a field of ten including seven Derby eligibles; by half a length, with Rush Hour second; at the opening day of the Havre de Grace (Md.) track...
...first turn, all horses learn to make for the rail on the left in their normal racing.* Last week's Futurity was no exception. There was considerable crowding to the left for the first half of the distance. And in the last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider with No. 13 on his saddle cloth, that nosed ahead three-fourths of a length to win the first prize of $88,690. Owned by Lee Rosenberg, a Manhattan cotton broker little known to turfmen, Kerry Patch is not particularly well-bred...